Definition of Clidastes. Meaning of Clidastes. Synonyms of Clidastes

- Prognathodon. Clidastes is known from deposits ranging in age from the Coniacian to the early Campanian in the United States. Clidastes means "locked...
- description, the Cope thought that it represented a giant species of Clidastes and named it Clidastes conodon. In 1966, Donald Baird and Gerard R. Case reidentified...
- part of the Mosasaurinae subfamily, alongside genera like Mosasaurus and Clidastes. Prognathodon has been recovered from deposits ranging in age from the...
- intermediate genus and species between Mosasaurus and the more primitive Clidastes. The study, published in 2023, named the species Jormungandr walhallaensis...
- skeleton, was originally referred to the genus Clidastes by Wiman and then to Halisaurus by Russell. Hence, Clidastes sternbergii became Halisaurus sternbergii...
- a marine bony fish, a possible shark, and another, smaller mosasaur (Clidastes). Mosasaur bones have also been found with shark teeth embedded in them...
- smallest known mosasaurs (Carinodens, 3–3.5 meters), to medium-sized taxa (Clidastes, 6+ meters), to the largest of the mosasaurs (Mosasaurus hoffmannii) potentially...
- North America. Plesioplatecarpus was originally named by Cope in 1874 as Clidastes planifrons, and later it was re****igned to Platecarpus. The name Plesioplatecarpus...
- third new genus of mosasaur to be described from North America behind Clidastes and Platecarpus and the first in Kansas. The early history of the genus...
- Isotopic analysis on teeth specimens has suggested that this genus and Clidastes may have entered freshwater occasionally, just like modern sea snakes...